Pioneer VSX-1024-K Manuel D’Utilisation

Thank you for buying this Pioneer product. Please read

through these operating instructions so you will know how to

operate your model properly.

Features

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Before you start

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Checking what’s in the box. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Installing the receiver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Flow of settings on the receiver

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01 Controls and displays

Front panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Remote control. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Loading the batteries. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Operating range of remote control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

02 Connecting your equipment

Determining the speakers’ application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Some tips for improving sound quality . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Connecting the speakers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Connect the surround back or front height speakers

(VSX-1024 only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Switching the speaker terminal. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Making cable connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

HDMI cables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

About HDMI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Analog audio cables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Digital audio cables. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Video cables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

About video outputs connection. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Connecting a TV and playback components . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Connecting using HDMI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Connecting your TV with no HDMI input . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Connecting optional Bluetooth

ADAPTER . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Connecting to the network through LAN interface . . . . . . 22

Connecting to a wireless LAN. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Connecting antennas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Using external antennas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Connecting an IR receiver (VSX-1024 only) . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Connecting an iPod . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Connecting a USB device. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Connecting a MHL-compatible device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Enjoy Roku video streaming service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Connecting an HDMI-equipped component to the front

panel input . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Plugging in the receiver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

03 Basic Setup

Automatically setting up for surround sound (MCACC) . . 26

Other problems when using the Auto MCACC setup . . . 27

04 Basic playback

Playing a source . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Selecting the audio input signal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Playing an iPod. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Playing back files stored on an iPod . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Basic playback controls. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Switches between the iPod controls and the receiver

controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Playing a USB device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Playing back audio files stored on a USB memory

device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Playing back photo files stored on a USB memory

device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

About playable file formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Playing a MHL-compatible device. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Enjoy Roku video streaming service. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Bluetooth

ADAPTER for Wireless Enjoyment of

Music . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Wireless music play. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Pairing the Bluetooth ADAPTER and Bluetooth wireless

technology device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Listening to Music Contents of Bluetooth wireless

technology device with Your System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Listening to the radio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Improving FM sound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Saving station presets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Listening to station presets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Naming preset stations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

05 Listening to your system

Choosing the listening mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Auto playback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Listening in surround sound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Using the Advanced surround . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Using Stream Direct . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Using the Sound Retriever . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Listening with Acoustic Calibration EQ. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Using surround back channel processing

(VSX-1024 only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Setting the Up Mix function (VSX-1024 only) . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Setting the Audio options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

06 Playback with NETWORK features

Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

About playable DLNA network devices. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Using AirPlay on iPod touch, iPhone, iPad, and

iTunes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

About the DHCP server function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Authorizing this receiver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

About HTC Connect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Playback with Network functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Basic playback controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Listening to Internet radio stations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Listening to Pandora Internet Radio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

About the Spotify audio stream playback function . . . . . . 45

Preparations (1) Installing the Spotify application

on mobile devices and registering a Spotify Premium

account . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Preparations (2) Connecting this unit to the network . . . 45

In order to use the Spotify audio stream playback

function from the Spotify application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Playing back audio files stored on components

on the network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Playing back your favorite songs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

The Network Setup menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Network Configuration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Language. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Firmware Update . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Network setting using Safari browser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Friendly Name setting using Safari browser. . . . . . . . . . 48

Firmware update using Safari browser. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Factory Reset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

System Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

About network playback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Content playable over a network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

About playback behavior over a network . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

About playable file formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

07 Home Menu

Using the Home Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Manual speaker setup. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Speaker Setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

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